Recently I watched a film called, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” a French film, based on a memoir about a man with locked-in syndrome. The memoir was written by the former French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered from a stroke, which left him completely paralyzed. However, he still had his memory and hearing and he was fully aware of his surroundings, but could only communicate with blinking is left eye lid. His whole memoir was dictated by him blinking his left eye-lid. The discussion we had in the last class about existence and meaning, brought this film to mind and made me think about it differently and I was inspired to look deeper into the film and the memoir. Was Jean-Dominique Bauby still the same person with only the ability to flicker his eye-lid? What is existence, meaning, and essence? Did he lose all of his identity? What is identity? Asking these questions has made me look forward to studying Philosophy more in depth.
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